Exploring the Marvel multiverse is all the craze today… which is to be anticipated when Phases 4-6 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are being collectively known as The Multiverse Saga. Spider-Man: No Manner Dwelling, Loki, Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity, The Marvels and Deadpool & Wolverine have all performed with alternate realities to 1 diploma or one other in live-action, after which What If… ? has been enjoying with this subject material on the animated entrance. We’re only a month away from What If… ? Season 3 premiering on the 2024 TV schedule, and a few new info has come to mild that has me questioning if the upcoming Marvel films Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars have one thing to do with the present ending.
Brad Winderbaum, the Head of Streaming, Tv and Animation at Marvel Studios, stopped by Part Hero to debate the recently-concluded Agatha All Alongside and the slate of upcoming Marvel TV reveals, together with What If… ? Season 3. Whereas discussing what’s forward for Jeffrey Wright’s Uatu and the characters who will come into his orbit for this closing batch of episodes, the chief stated this:
I can not say an excessive amount of, however I’m simply gonna put this on the market, that there are greater universe explanation why it looks like What If… ? must coast in for a touchdown proper now. It doesn’t imply there can’t be extra What If… ? down the street, however it’s a part of a much bigger tapestry that’s being woven in actual time.
Though Winderbaum didn’t outright point out Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, absolutely these of you studying this could perceive how the tease of a “greater tapestry” has me fascinated about these films. Similar to Infinity Battle and Endgame in The Infinity Saga, Doomsday and Secret Wars are set to be the climactic chapters that carry The Multiverse Saga to an in depth. I can’t consider any “greater universe” motive for why What If… ? would wish to finish, though, as Winderbaum stated, that doesn’t essentially imply the present couldn’t return sometime.
What precisely might that motive be? That’s exhausting to say given the quantity of secret surrounding Doomsday and Secret Wars, even by Marvel Studios’ requirements. Plot-wise, other than the Avengers clearly reforming, all we all know is that this franchise’s Incredible 4 will seem following their debut in The Incredible 4: First Steps subsequent summer time, and Robert Downey Jr. will return to the MCU to play Physician Doom, who would be the principal antagonist in these films after the plan for Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror to fill that position was scrapped.
My greatest guess for now’s that the occasions that unfold in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars can be so monumental that they’ll have an effect on the multiverse in a method that received’t make it potential for What If… ? to inform its normal form of tales. Nonetheless, I hope that What If… ?remains to be in a position to issue into what goes down in these films. Particularly, I’d prefer to see Jeffrey Wright reprise Uatu, as a result of he’ll should take discover of what’s taking place.
What If… ? Season 3 can be launched day by day to those that are signed up with a Disney+ subscription beginning December 22. Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on Might 1, 2026, and Avengers: Secret Wars follows on Might 7, 2027.